Falling to impress: the secrets of a dramatic plunge | Bella Todd

A staged fall can trip a theatre production up, or raise it to another levelEver since Satan plunged from heaven to hell (or, rather, from wagon-top to street) in the very first mystery play, theatre has had to engage with the problem of how to present the falling body. And this summer the Chichester festival has been particularly embracing the challenge, staging two death plunges at the Minerva theatre in as many months – and with rather different degrees of success.In Howard Brenton's adapta...

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